Patient reading/reading patience : Oxford essays on medieval English literature /

"This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanna, Ralph (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Exeter medieval texts and studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language barriers: Literacy, schooling, universities
  • Vernacular exegesis in fourteenth-century England?
  • Lambeth Palace Library, MS 260, and the problem of English vernacularity
  • Editing "Middle English lyrics": the case of Candet nudatum pectus
  • Performing exegesis: lyric and sermon in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.26.
  • Nasty books: Collection procedures: Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487: some problems of early thirteenth-century textual transmission
  • Producing Magdalen College MS lat. 93
  • A fifteenth-century vernacular miscellany revisited
  • Humphrey Newton and Bodleian Library, MS Lat. misc. c.66.
  • Historicising the archive: Yorkshire writers
  • Some North Yorkshire scribes and their context
  • Dr. Peter Partridge and MS Digby 98
  • John of Wales and "classicising friars."
  • Reading(:) Patience in Piers Plowman: An ideological prequel
  • Langland's kind of poetry
  • On Patience
  • Conscience's dinner
  • Hawkin and Patience's instruction
  • The C version revisions.